Archive for November 18th, 2008

Can’t and Won’t Are The Same Thing

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

A buddy of mine, Jerry Howe, once said to me something along the lines that if I could do something I said I could do, and did not do it, then that amounts to the same thing as not being able to do it. Now, that was not meant literally, but rather philosophically.

So, we are not talking about martial artists who can kill with one blow not having that ability because they don’t kill with one blow. No, we are talking about the self imposed limitations of the human spirit, the downer attitudes that keep us from doing, whatever, whatever, we want.

The kind of thinking that states, I would if I could but I can’t, when in reality we could but we just don’t.

See, Do It Now.

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Do It Fast

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

On a somewhat related note I’ve decided to talk a little bit about time. Time is on my side, yes it is.

One philosophy is that time is an illusion, the fact is, there is no time. The truth is, there is no time, no time to do anything at all, any time at all.

But back to the point, in our product based societies we rarely look at the alternative results in time based productivity. What if you could achieve more in less time? Did you lose that productivity?

In other words, is unrealized potential the same as losing that potential?

In productivity terms yes. Take that elusive mass delusion known as money. If I earn dollars, in a given amount of time, but could have earned more dollars, in the same amount of time, I actually lost dollars. The same goes for non-monetary matters.

For example: If I could sit under an oak tree, and ponder the lack of meaning in the universe without a point of view or apparatus with which to measure meaning, for 4 hours, but could have sat there for 8 hours, I lost 4 hours of pondering time.

So there is something to be said for not only realizing we are in the now, and now is the only time (pun intended) to do it, but to do it fast as well. To maximize….whatever it is.

Whatever, whatever, I do what I want.

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